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ARTArticleSHOULD YOU LISTEN TO YOUR HEAD OR HEART?“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.” ~Christopher Morley.
This article title is not a rhetorical question at all. In fact it might be one of the most important questions to ask and answer as we approach what some self-growth, human potential gurus suspect to be the dawn of a “new conscientious” in the on-going evolution of our civilization, at the important date of 2012.ARTArticleShow Me the Magic!"Have faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true". - Cinderella
What is the key to creating magic in your life? Well, I can promise you it's not by abdicating personal responsibility. It's not by being passive like Sleeping Beauty or hoping the white knight is going to save you. It's by taking responsibility for aligning your intentions with the Universe... and calling on your own resourcefulness to make your dreams come true.ARTArticleSHRINKING FROWNS AND EXPANDING SMILESSHRINKING FROWNS AND EXPANDING SMILES
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Bill Cottringer
“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.” ~William Shakespeare.
Here are ten practical ways to reduce your unhappy failures and boost your happy successes, curing your frowns with smiles:
1. Follow the reality principle.ARTArticleSilenceTo sit in silence is to relax and just breathe. No time constraints, no rubbish to listen to. You feel your own heartbeat thumping. You feel your diaphragm contract and expand with every breath you take. You clear your mind of all things. Relax and let your mind go.ARTArticleSilenceTo sit in silence is to relax and just breathe. No time constraints, no rubbish to listen to. You feel your own heartbeat thumping. You feel your diaphragm contract and expand with every breath you take. You clear your mind of all things. Relax and let your mind go.ARTArticleSimple Steps to Personal EffectivenessWe would all like to be more effective – to get the really important stuff done effortlessly, to simply do the things that we don’t like doing or want to do without any distraction, to get much more done to the very best of our ability in far less time and have plenty more time to do all the things that we keep promising ourselves that we will do – spend much more time doing the things that we really and truly enjoy. There you have it – my definition of personal effectiveness.
How far removed is that from your ordinary daily life?ARTArticleSimple Strategies You Can Use To Increase Profits In Any BusinessYour Image, etiquette, communication and interpersonal skills can play a major role in the type of opportunities that come your way. Opportunities like increasing your earning potential, creating a circle of influence and the quality of your relations weigh heavily on how you present yourself to others.
A potential client will, within seconds, determine if you are trustworthy and creditable.ARTArticleSimple Truths, A Self Help Guide to Help You Find Your Own Success, Peace, and HappinessChristian Author Shares Simple Truths to Happiness, Success, and Finding One’s Life Purpose
[Mountain Home, AR January 19, 2010] “God did not create you to fail,” says http://www.tommycolettamarketing.com [Thomas M. Coletta] Christian speaker and author in his new book, “Simple Truths.” Packed with straightforward advice to help people find happiness, success, and discover their true life purpose, Coletta shines a beacon of light for those who are struggling with self-esteem, their career, unemployment, drug or alcohol abuse, lifestyle or who need help for their relationship.ARTArticleSingled Out: The Purpose!It is early and the house is quiet. I do not hear the sound of hard snores coming from my husband of so many years. There isn’t the sound of a small snoring coming from my children. It is just me. Has always been so since my teenage years. When I am ask the question regarding, my status I am often given awwww, looks. When this happens, I want to proclaim to them it is well with me.
“No, no, I am good,” I stated this smilingly.
The churches Mother’s pet my hand; gently nodding their heads.ARTArticleSkiing the Slopes of LeadershipIt was Boss’s Day on the 16th October. I was listening to the radio as I drove out to do a keynote address to heads of private banks. My mind was systematically going through the points I had to raise during my talk but it was a difficult task as the DJ was getting callers to share how they planned to celebrate the day with their bosses.
The talk back radio show was popular most mornings. A string of callers responded, some who liked their bosses and others dreading the day as they felt compelled to take their bosses out for lunch to say the least.ARTArticleSlow Down to Accelerate Your ResultsProductivity is not simply activity. Without a clear vision, a heartfelt why, and a clear strategy, you will waste your resources - time, energy and money. You will also increase the likelihood that you will create dis-ease in your body from overworking and stress.ARTArticleSlow down to speed upJust finished watching the movie Peaceful Warrior. (If you haven’t seen it, go grab a copy at the DVD store. It’s one you’ll want to see more than once).
In the movie, Dan, the main character, has a very busy life. He’s a young college student and athlete, bound for the Olympics, he trains hard, plays hard and gets good grades. A certain feeling of uneasiness comes over him about his life, something he’s never had before.ARTArticleSo GratefulIf I could sum up all the important things in my life I can put it into two words, “be grateful.” No matter what you have, or what you don’t have, you have to be grateful for what you do have. Awake each morning by feeling grateful. From the moment you open your eyes, start off by feeling grateful that you even awoke. Life is short and we are not guaranteed another day. Then I go on to feeling grateful that you awoke in your bed. It does not matter how comfortable, or uncomfortable your bed is.ARTArticleSo Many Self Help Books... So Little ChangeI spent a couple of hours recently with a client for whom basically everything has gone wrong over the last couple of years – marriage in a mess, business heading down the tubes, in the middle of a couple of court actions, finances shot – and, seemingly no way out. However, the very first thing we discussed was not the way out, but how he’d got himself into the mess in the first place – particularly as he already had a strong grasp of how we use our minds to create the lives we want. Surely, this was not the life he wanted.ARTArticleSocial Networking – LinkedIn Strategies to Generate $100K+LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network with an astounding 165 million users inside a targeted audience of business professionals. And yet, only a tiny fraction of LinkedIn users are leveraging this free online social network to successfully generate leads and new business.
If you are currently not generating $100K in new business from LinkedIn you need to hear my message this Wednesday on this first time ever complimentary webinar.
In this power-packed 60 minutes I will show you how to use LinkedIn to:ARTArticleSome Self Help Alte
ative Medicine!For many years, Eastern medicine – acupuncture, Vedic medicine – was termed “alte
ative” by a Western society whose medical traditions could only be described as youthful or adolescent by comparison. As an Ayurvedic surgeon from Cambridge said to me last Autumn, “If I’d studied conventional surgery at somewhere like Stanford or Harvard, I’d be using text books that are fifty years old, at most. In Bangalore, I was using texts that were five thousand years old.” But the “developed world” knows best!
I’ve been talking to a variety of business people – people sufferARTArticleSometimes We Make It Hard For OurselvesSometimes, It's Hard!
Life is great, life is good, and in the words of Helen Keller, life is an adventure or nothing at all. And, sometimes, life is also hard. Why? Who knows? We hit the wall. We skim the skids. We get upset. We get angry, we get frustrated, things don't look like they're going the way we would like them to go, the list goes on, and on, and on. We do this! Great, again! Why? Because that's what we do sometimes.ARTArticleSomewhereWe all get caught up with things that are going on in our immediate environment, sometimes it’s hard to imagine what’s going on somewhere else in the world. This might bring you a little closer in thought and hopefully in heart.ARTArticleSoul Provider - Posituve IntentionsPositive and Negative Intentions are Directions.
Which Direction do you Choose?
The past couple of days I've been covering the topic of love. I stated that love is a choice based on your intentions/thoughts not your feelings. I also pointed out that in order to start attracting more positive, accountable, generous, compassionate, loving and caring people into your life, you needed to start looking at your own intentions/thoughts.ARTArticleStart Your Day on the Right FootHow did you start your day today? When you leaped – or dragged yourself – out of bed, were you ready and alert for all the wonderful opportunities that today will offer, or did you slouch, on automatic pilot, to the bathroom in the normal early morning daze. If, of course, you were awoken by an alarm clock, then your day started off on the wrong foot right from the word go, because your subconscious mind wasn’t ready to wake up. Bearing in mind that your subconscious mind runs your daily life, an unprepared subconscious means you’re completely unprepared for the day ahead – like aARTArticleStay on TargetToday’s mantra: stay on target.
Some days, you just wake up apathetic or discouraged, for what could be no reason at all. Oh sure, there’s always some reason, but it’s probably not at all what you think. I mean, there are so many blessings to count, so much goodness around but sometimes you just have to let yourself feel poopy for a little bit before you move on.
It’s not that you’re unhappy or miserable with everything in your life.ARTArticleStay StrongSay your words with conviction. Feel and know the strength that they bare. Just know that however many people tell you that you can’t do something, that there are a million more people that are rooting for you. Just because something is not seen nor heard, does not mean that it isn’t so.
When others see your strength, as you get closer to obtaining your goal, they become threatened by their own weakness. Some may try and make you weak by their words or actions, but they won’t be successful because you are stronger than they are.ARTArticleSTAYING AHEAD OF THE PAPERWORK OVERLOADSTAYING AHEAD OF THE PAPERWORK OVERLOAD
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Bill Cottringer
“Keeping up with the information overload is like trying to sip water from a fire hose.” rn~ Anonymous.
So you think you are overloaded with paperwork at your job? My very first professional job was a counselor at a maximum security prison in Kentucky back in 1970.ARTArticleStep On The AcceleratorThe Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix will be upon us soon. I was never a fan of this race. I could not understand how enthusiasts sat in the heat of the day watching cars go around a circuit, with danger looming at every corner.
I see, hear and feel the adrenalin rush and understand what they are excited about but I would rather lie in bed, reading a book. Until the day I went into the city... and heard the engines roar.ARTArticleSteps to Heal Money Troublesone of the biggest challenges facing people in search of fiscal abundance is not actually the making of the money, but rather the battle in their heads about money. It is NOT possible to prosper while simultaneously holding the belief that you can’t make money doing what you love AND the desire to make money doing what you love. This can be even more intense for those who have chosen full time self-employment. This internal warfare is tiring at best and at it’s worst is wearing roller skates on a slippery slope to your ultimate financial destruction.
1.ARTArticleStop Reading Self-Help Books!I am forever being contacted by clients recommending a variety of self-help books. And, yet, a client recently mentioned to me that he had been on a workshop where another participant told him to "Stop reading the books - and start living it!" The truth is, that you will only find true wisdom within. You will only find your true potential within.ARTArticleStop the Fantasies That Debilitate AccomplishmentStop wasting energy that drains your sense of self and forces you to deal with false scenarios, but do not confuse mundane fantasies with the true use of your imagination. Imagination is what keeps you going and creates new opportunities that free you up to visualize ideas, essential and germane, to your accomplishments. Imagination is a requirement for the ascension to new levels of consciousness, but make sure to avoid any form of mental reservation that impedes your progress.ARTArticleStore Credit Cards and What You Should Be Aware OfWhile you were doing your Christmas shopping last month did you give in to the lure of the sales clerk offering you the opportunity to “Save 15% today and have no interest payments for 18 months if you open a credit card account with us?” This probably sounded great while you were reflecting on the amount of money you were spending during the holiday season.
But….ARTArticleStorytelling: Directing Your Life on Purpose, with PurposeWe love storytelling; this love affair begins in childhood and we never outgrow it. Our brain is a "storytelling" organ, made perfectly for creating storyline. Life is not as objective as it appears on the surface. Via our perceptions of how we interpret the facts and experiences of our lives, we see the world through our own unique lens.
We set the stage of our lives based on these perceptions. When we become more self-aware by learning how our brain operates optimally, we can start to direct our life story on purpose, with purpose. You see, we can change our 'story'.ARTArticleStrategic Thinking – The Preparation for the Future in Business“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
~ Sun Tzu
Strategic thinking is a systematic draft of steps or actions that help company not only sustain its current position but also achieve its growth targets at the end of a specific period or duration. It involves strategic planning, operational planning, managing resources effectively and identifying your target audience.